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The Bach Cantatas Website celebrates its 21st anniversary! |
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January 14, 2022 |
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The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) was launched in its current form and address on December 30, 2000. meaning that December 30, 2021 was its 21st anniversary.
The BCW is located at: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/
Description: The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of J.S. Bach's cantatas and his other vocal works and many of his instrumental works. The BCW contains for most works: detailed discographies, discussions, texts and translations, scores, commentaries, references, music examples... Performers of Bach’s works: their biographies, Bach discographies... Poets & composers associated with Bach: their biographies, Bach connection... Other resources: the Lutheran church year, chorale texts & melodies, books and movies on Bach, concerts, Bach festivals, guide to Bach tour... The BCW is an international collective project.
The BCW is definitely the most popular site dedicated to J.S. Bach and his music and among the most popular sites dedicated to Classical Music in general.
The BCW is updated and expanded continuously.
Some statistics: by the end of 2021, the BCW contains over 40K pages.
The BCW has each day about 18K visits who view about 60K pages.
The BCW is rated very high in Google and other search engines, and there are over 256K links from other websites to the BCW.
Past year saw numerous updates, improvements and additions: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/New/index.htm
I would like to use this opportunity to thank the numerous contributors to the discussions in the Bach Mailing List (BML), whose messages are compiled into the pages of the BCW. Their names are mentioned accordingly above each quoted message. I would also like to thank the many Bach lovers around the world who have sent me material to be included in the BCW, such as articles, translation of cantata texts, recording details, biographies, photos, music examples, links to other sites, etc. Their names are mentioned accordingly in the relevant pages.
I continue to look forward to receiving your comments (corrections, suggestions, improvements, etc.) about the BCW. The instructions how to send me comments, appear in the following page: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/How.htm
I wish you all another Great and Happy and Healthy Bach Year!
Sincerely,
Aryeh Oron
Webmaster of Bach Cantatas Website (BCW)
https://www.bach-cantatas.com/
Moderator of Bach Mailing List (BML)
https://groups.io/g/Bach |
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Feedback to the announcement |
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Anne Nessie Russell wrote (January 14, 2022):
[To Aryeh Oron] Thank you for all your hard work Aryeh. I don't want to even think about how many hours this has taken. |
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Barrry B. wrote (January 14, 2022):
Ensuring a future
Is there any tasteful way to have advertising on the bach-cantatas.com?
I would like to see the site survive for 10, 100, ..... years.
That would require a funding source to ensure continued maintenance. |
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Thierry van Bastelaar wrote (January 14, 2022):
[To Anne Nessie Russell] I don't want to even think about a world without BCW. |
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Erica Basta wrote (January 14, 2022):
[To Thierry van Bastelaar] Thank you for everything! Congratulations! |
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Kees van den Doel wrote (January 14, 2022):
[To Aryeh Oron] May I suggest to add a link somewhere to Tanubach's Bach MIDI collection?
It's very nice and seems to have everything, cantatas are complete for sure.
It's great for learning vocal parts.
http://jsbach.blog68.fc2.com/ |
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Jane Newble wrote (January 14, 2022):
[To Barry B.] All you need is someone as dedicated as Aryeh, then no advertising would be necessary. |
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Jane Newble wrote (January 14, 2022):
[To Aryeh Oron] Thank you once again Aryeh, for you complete dedication to Bach and his works! 21 years!
I well remember the excitement of the first few years, when we started listening and writing about all the cantatas, one by one, and following them through the church year.
It has been a wonderful experience to be a small part of this. |
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Barry B. wrote (January 14, 2022):
[To Jane Newble] hah ! good luck with that. |
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Jeffrey Solow wrote (January 15, 2022):
[To Aryeh Oron] Bach Cantatas has helped me develop a deeper and greater appreciation for JSB's accomplishments--on top of the huge amount of both that I already had, which is almost hard to believe).
My hat is off to you! (many hats) |
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Zachary Uram wrote (January 15, 2022):
[To Jeffrey Solow] Congrats!!! |
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Suzanne Pederson wrote (January 15, 2022):
Thank you for the great work you do |
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William Hoffman wrote (January 15, 2022):
[To Aryeh Oron] Thank you for the 21st anniversary posting of another fine year and your update of the BML. <> |
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John Garside wrote (January 15, 2022):
Congratulations on the 21st anniversary, and a huge THANK YOU to Aryeh for the site and all your dedication.
Long may it continue ... please.
Another site which hosts some Bach cantatas up to #160,(the project appears to be ongoing) is Suzuchan's Classic MIDI. To be found here https://www.suzumidi.com/eng/index.htm.
As I recall, some of the figured bass parts have been worked out for some canatatas.
I'm not always in full agreement with some of the tempi used, but that's an easy fix in MIDI. |
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Ekaterina Liberova wrote (January 15, 2022):
Thank you very much for your great work! Have a very good, healthy, successful year! |
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Ariadne Oliveira wrote (January 16, 2022):
Congratulations! Thank you for the amazing work!! |
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